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Yesterday’s Washington Post had a story about Amazon.com applying for a patent on a process to improve the experience of receiving a gift. When a person purchases an item through Amazon and identifies it as a gift to be delivered to another person, Amazon will electronically notify the recipient of…
Read More »With a big snowstorm forecast, I broke out my Flip video camera and tried to document the storm from start to finish. Here’s the result: [youtube]k8qMW_zNj3k[/youtube]
Read More »The snow began in Lowell yesterday at 3:30 pm. By 8 pm, about 4 inches had fallen. Throughout the night the wind was howling. At 5 am today, it looks like another 6 inches fell overnight. I’m heading out soon to clear the cars and the driveway and will report…
Read More »On the evening of December 25, 1776, George Washington led a ragtag group of Colonial soldiers across the ice-choked Delaware River and successfully attacked the Hessian garrison at Trenton, New Jersey. Coming after a string of crushing defeats and after the colonial army had shrunk in size by 90%, the…
Read More »The National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for Eastern Massachusetts with the snow expected to begin by noon tomorrow and continue into the middle of Monday. Life will be easier with all schools on vacation already, but it still sounds like Monday morning will be a mess. Today’s…
Read More »When I was growing up, one bright spot in the long, gloomy stretch of winter from Christmas to Opening Day was the Bob Hope Christmas Special. Hope began visiting American troops in war zones during World War Two, so in the 1960s and 1970s, he and his entourage ventured to…
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Read More »Tony Sampas photographed the trolley tracks that cross John Street near the Boott Mills after a light dusting of snow.
Read More »For many of us 50 and older, watching the “Lone Ranger” was one of our earliest TV memories. I don’t remember much about the program, but I do remember the opening and the theme song. Seeing the name “Fred Foy” in today’s obituaries would not have attracted my attention; but…
Read More »Tony Sampas catches the change of seasons, from fall to winter, at Boarding House Park in Lowell
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